Thomas Fleming (author)

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Thomas Fleming is an American writer, president of the Rockford Institute, and editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, a leading paleoconservative political commentary periodical, published each month. He received his PhD. in the Classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a specialty in ancient Greek lyric poetry.[1]

He was a founding member and former board member of the League of the South (from which he later resigned) as well as an affiliated scholar of their educational arm, the League of the South Institute.[2] He was the founding editor of the "Southern Partisan" magazine, started in 1979. The Southern Poverty Law Center, has accused Fleming of being one of the key intellectuals of what it considers to be a "Neo-Confederate" movement. He was a staunch opponent of Western military intervention in Iraq and Kosovo.[3]

[edit] Works

• The Morality of Everyday Life: Rediscovering an Ancient Alternative to the Liberal Tradition (2004) ISBN 0-8262-1509-2
• Montenegro: The Divided Land (2002) ISBN 0-9619364-9-5
• The Politics of Human Nature (1993) ISBN 1-56000-693-5
• The Conservative Movement (1988, with Paul Gottfried) ISBN 0-8057-9724-6